-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm actually looking at getting a complete system, possibly a au-500. some searching comes up with several mentions of this machine related to linux so it seems supported. On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 10:17:20PM +0000, Garry Turkington wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Best bet for an Alpha is likely one of the EV56 chips on the SX-164 series > of motherboards. I've got a mangled Red Hat install on one of these which > I plan to migrate to Debian when I get some time. Beauty of this platform > is that its an ATX board that takes standard memory and even PCI cards - > so your chances of putting together a full system with bits lying in the > cupboard are pretty high. The boards are available readily on eBay, I > looked into getting one when my Alpha looked sick last year, though it > happily recovered. Of course you'll likely get an old AlphaStation for a > pretty low price anyway if you want to buy something ready to go. > > Check out www.alphalinux.org which I just see talks of an upcoming Fedora > port for the Alpha, hurrah! > > Regards, > Garry > > > > Garry Turkington > garry.turkington at acm.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAYLue9XVrM3ri110RAncFAJ4vslNlQXzOwV4s9oNh/4aXI3cbwgCfeSkI XPTFcWrecgb+nQf9mQn6xRc= =Flk8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
